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The rich cultural heritage of the Israeli Community of Thessaloniki, its intense activity in the field of letters and the arts of the city, as well as the successful cooperation of its groups in events of the Cultural Center of the Central Macedonia Region occupied the meeting it had on 18.09.2023 with the President of the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki David Saltiel and members of the Board of Directors, the President of the KPKM and candidate for Regional Councilor in the P.E. Thessaloniki with the combination "Solidarity" of Rep. Tzitzikostas Anna Mykoniou.
During the meeting Ms. Mykoniou referred to the high level of the theater group of the Israeli Community, samples of whose work she has watched while expressing her admiration for Sephardic music.
The candidate Regional Councilor referred to the multidimensional face of the Culture Center of the Central Macedonia Region, at the helm of which she has been since 2015, emphasizing its extroversion.
"Our goal is to multiply our collaborations while we will continue to give a platform to all the theater groups and choirs of the Region of Central Macedonia. In addition, our aim is for all our own productions to travel even more to the rest of the cities of our country", stressed Ms. Mykoniou and added that "all our events will always continue to have a social character, as our aim is to have access to all our fellow citizens".
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On 14.9.2023 members of the "All of us" faction together with the head of Drosos Tsavlis and the presidency of the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki met in an exceptional atmosphere.
The Memorial Park could not be absent from the discussion, a commitment to its completion that Mr. Tsavlis has undertaken respecting the history of Thessaloniki. The candidate for the mayor of Thessaloniki mentioned his proposals regarding the necessary pedestrian crossings that the city needs, finding agreement with the presidency of the Israeli Community as something like this was "applied in Ermou in Athens, on the most commercial street" as characteristically observed by the president of IKTH, Mr. .David Saltiel
In this context, the need to reduce the number of cars from the center of Thessaloniki was also underlined, which would also require a change in the habits of the city's residents.
At the same time, the candidate Mayor emphasized the human-centered nature of the "All of Us" faction, which he himself implements as a doctor, stressing that with increased social responsibility he will take care to strengthen social structures such as the Municipal Clinics, to expand programs such as "Help to Home' and address issues such as homelessness and disadvantaged groups. Mr. Tsavlis spoke about the continuity that must exist in a Municipality, maintaining all the good that has happened in the city but completing its program.
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The octagonal shape inspired by monuments of similar geometry such as the Galerian Complex in Thessaloniki and the Tower of the Winds in Athens, the patterns of the floors and floors that refer to Sephardic architecture and old synagogues, the dialogue of light and shadow that will express the great sacrifice of the city's Jewish community during World War II, but also the character of an ark of memory that will offer a conciliatory look back to the past and an expectation of a new collective history in the future, are some of the elements that will distinguish the Holocaust Museum of Greece in Thessaloniki, according to the architectural study of the building which received yesterday (7.9.2023) the positive opinion of the Central Council of New Monuments.
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On 5.9.2023, the new US Consul General in Thessaloniki Jerrier Ismail visited the offices of the Israelite Community of Thessaloniki and met with the President of KISE and I.K.Th. David Saltiel. The President of KISE informed him about the issues that concern Greek Jewry and the Community, as well as about the developments regarding the Holocaust Museum.
In a post on facebook of the US Consulate in Thessaloniki it says: “Remarkable first discussion with the President of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, David Saltiel, exploring the community's priorities, including the final steps needed to begin construction of the Holocaust Museum of Greece. I look forward to many more gatherings. Together we honor history and promote tolerance."
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At the end of September 2023, the definitive study for the Holocaust Museum is to be ready, so that it can then be submitted for the issuance of a building permit, thus opening the way for construction for this great project of historical memory and culture.
It is noted that responsibility for the final architectural study rests with the cooperating offices Makridis Associates, EK A Efrat – Kowalsky (Israel) and Heide & von Bekcerath (Germany).
As makthes.gr is informed, the road to the issuance of the building permit has essentially been opened with its pre-approval, in February 2023, by the competent Directorate of the Municipality of Thessaloniki. It should be noted that the project managers, based on the law and the provisions for category 3 building permits, could bypass the pre-approval process and request the issuance of a building permit only with an engineer's certificate (Article 30 of Law 4495/ 2017), which they however chose not to do, as they preferred to exhaust the audit procedures. Therefore, it is very likely that the building permit for the Greek Holocaust Museum will be issued within 2023.
